Angela Rosengart

Angela Rosengart established the Rosengart Foundation in 1992. She was born in Lucerne in 1932 and still resides in the city of her birth. 

She has been active in the art dealing world since 1948: initially as an employee in her father Siegfried`s business, then as co-owner and joint managing director toghether with her father from 1957 onwards. Her father died in 1985, since when she has managed the business alone. In her professional career, she has concentrated on the "Classic Modernists". 

Indeed, she was a personal friend of a number of these artists, first and formost with Pablo Picasso. Picasso, for his part, painted Angela`s portrait no fewer than five times. These five portraits are shown permanently in the Rosengart Collection.

In 1978, Siegfried and Angela Rosengart donated eight works by Picasso - seven paintings and a sculpture - to the City of Lucerne to mark the 800th anniversary of the city`s foundation. The "Rosengart Donation" became the Picasso-Museum in the city`s historic AmRhyn House. 

Since 2008 the exhibits of the Picasso Museum (late works by the artist and photos by David Douglas Duncan) have been assimilated into the Rosengart Collection at Pilatusstrasse 10. And in all of the late Picasso works (32 paintings, some 100 drawings, watercolours and graphic and sculptural works) presented in the Rosengart Collection, the visitor is confronted time and again with the sheer variety of ideas and inspirations in the artist`s creative world, together with spectacular photos by Picasso`s friend David Douglas Duncan. 

In 2003 the Faculty of Philosophy of Zurich University awarded Angela Rosengart an honorary doctorate, or "Doctor honoris causa".